Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year!!!

Christmas Tree Ornaments 2

A very nice crochet amigurumi 3d heart for the Christmas tree. I found this very helpful pattern in Owlishly blog, and here is a pink heart I made.

Christmas Tree Ornaments

Hello all!
Long time since my last post. I was moving to a new apartment, so the last month was very busy! But now I am back and ready for Christmas. I did some crochet and knitted ornaments for my Christmas tree. Here are two balls I knitted followed the pattern I found in "i like lemons" blog.

Earrings

More crochet earrings.

New earring

Here are my new crochet earrings.

Kanelbullens dag

Today here in Sweden is the Cinnamon Roll's day (Kanelbullens dag). It is celebrated every year at 4th of October, since 1999. So I tried also to cook some rolls. But I prefer vanilla, so I made a small change to the standard rolls. I found the recipe in Saras delikatesser blog. They are very fluffy but I would like some more sugar on them. Next time I will make them more sweet!!

Colorful bracelets

These are my new colorful bracelets. They were just wooden bracelets which I dress them with different colors of yarn. 

New Shawl

Here is my new colorful granny shawl. I made it for my sister. The blog All Thing Crochet helped me find out the pattern for these granny stripe.

Some older bracelets

Yesterday while searching some old photos, I found two flower bracelets I had done last year. I had found the patterns in CreativeYarn blog.

New Bracelets

Here are some of my new crochet colorful bracelets.

Summer....

Hello again, as you maybe understand I was on holidays in Greece!! It was so nice and so warm! I didn't have much time to crochet or in general to create something but I will come back soon.
These are the shells of some sea ​​urchins a friend of mine found in the sea.

Round Washcloth

Hello,
today I made a round washcloth. It is quite easy to make it and I will try to give you the pattern instructions below. You can find videos for learning how to read crochet patterns in Annie's Attic site.

The first thing you need to know is how to make the adjustable ring. You can see a video here showing how to create this magic ring. And here are the stitches for every round.

Rnd 1: Ch 1. Do 9 sc in ring; do not join.
Rnd 2: Do 2 hdc in each sc around. You will have 8 hdc at the end of this round.
Rnd 3: (2 dc in next hdc, ch 1, skip next hdc) 9 times. You will have 18 dc and 9 ch at end of this round.
Rnds 4-9: (2 dc in next dc, dc in each dc until the next ch, ch 1 for skipping ch-1 sp) 9 times.
Rnd 10: (sl st in each st) 5 times (for 5 of the triangles created) . Fasten off.

Or you can make the same pattern for round 4-8 and then the 9th round could be:
Rnd 9: (2 dc in next dc, dc in next 6 dc, ch 1 for skipping next ch-1 sp) 5 times, sl st in each st to end of rnd. Fasten off.

Before finishing with all the sl st, maybe 5-6 st before the end, you can crochet a ch 10 (skipping one st) for being able to hang your washcloth.

Necklace

Hello all,

I am not posting very frequently but the truth is that I have a lot of job recently so not a lot of free time. But I will try post a bit more often. Here is my new necklace, made with needle felt balls and just 3 crochet balls.

Crochet bracelet

Some days ago I went to a crochet and knitting meeting in Midsommarkransen in "Tellus Caféet". Τhe atmosphere in this place is very nice, and we had a relaxing time with two friends. This is a crochet bracelet I did there for another friend.

Happy Easter

I know it is a bit late to wish you Happy Easter, but I was on a trip and just come back yesterday. So Happy Easter to all. Here are the eggs I painted. The yellows are painted with onions.

Easter Chick

This weekend I found a very nice an easy tutorial for creating an Easter chick at Myrtle & Eunice blog.  It is made with felt and some wire for the legs.

More earrings...

These weekend was quite creative I have to say. My sister was here to visit me and she asked me for some earrings so here they are.

Spring earrings

Hello all,
since the spring is coming (although in Stockholm is still like autumn) I decided to crochet a pair of purple flower earrings.

Crochet blanket with squares

Last year I started to crochet a blanket which unfortunately I haven't finish yet, cause is very big project and didn't have much time! I made almost half of it and hope to finish it soon. It is made with many crochet squares of different colors. Here is a photo and I will try to write also a tutorial of how to crochet the squares. I took the idea of HandMaid Listet blog, which has in general very nice crochet ideas, and she has made also a similar blanket.

New Earrings

These are the new earrings I made for my sister! I used a hoop wrapped with waxed rope and then I added a small crochet ball! And here they are...

Scarf

Here in Stockholm is still very cold! Temperature lately is around -15 again, and even colder so a scarf is a very warm gift. This is the scarf I am knitting for my boyfriend, and hope to finish with it soon.

Alexandra's Cookies

Last Sunday I made some delicious cookies with marmalade. I found the recipe in Alexandra's blog that's why I named the cookies like this. The blog is in Greek but I will translate the recipe.

Ingredients:

350 gr. (maybe a bit more) flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder
218 gr. sugar
180 gr.soft butter
1 egg
marmalade you like (I used one with mixes berries)
 
In a bowl combine butter, sugar, and vanilla and mix using an electric mixer until smooth. Then add the egg and continue mixing well. Finally add the flour and the baking powder and start mashing with hands until we have a soft dough that does not stick to the bowl or to our hands.
Then divide the dough into small balls (the size of a walnut), put them in a pan, and push the ball a bit in the center for making a small curve for the marmalade (you can see Alexandra's images) and add half of tsp of marmalade in the curve.
Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes. 

Needel felting earrings

Hello,
it's been a while since my last post. The truth is that most of the things am I doing right now have not finished, but I will post some photos of them the next days. This is a pair of earrings made with needle felting and wire.

Necklace with copper sheets

Hello,
this is an necklace I did some months ago, with copper sheets and colorful yarns.

Daisy Necklace

This is a necklace I made with some other materials. I used a wire wrapped with colored waxed rope and I made a daisy pendant!

Happy New Year!

Hello and Happy New Year to all! I was on holidays that's why I haven't written for the last weeks.  I came back yesterday through Frankfurt and this is a photo over the city!